Re: [Mingw-msys] Vista users: please test the new MSYS snapshot

[Cesar Strauss <cestrauss@xxxxxxxxx>]

Allan Dee wrote:
> Cesar Strauss <cestrauss@...> writes:
> 
>> I released a new version of the msys-1.0.dll file that contains a 
>> workaround for bug in Vista 64.
> 
>> ...
> 
>> As I don't have Vista myself, I would be glad to hear from Vista users 
>> if it really works.
> 
> For me, it fixes the problem with everything crashing instantly for me, but I'm
> still getting cascades of empty rxvt windows (128 of them) when trying to run
> msys.bat.  I'm not sure if this was supposed to fix this?  I noticed another
> thread on the subject of Vista 64 and rxvt, but I didn't see any closure there.
> 

Could you try replacing your msys.bat file with the following one:
http://mingw.cvs.sourceforge.net/mingw/msys/dvlpr/bin/msys.bat?revision=1.14&view=markup
It contains fixes for 64-bit versions of Windows.

Does it helps?

Regards,
Cesar


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